In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD.
Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

(Malachi 3:1; Isaiah 40:3)

It is in the wilderness, in this vast space of stillness – away from the daily rush and anxiety – that we are given the gift of seeing the world and its systems for what it is.

And then recognizing our desire for something more, something that will hold us when all else is failing. Something that will draw us into peace, and settle us into wholeness. Something that will lead us home – to our deepest self, to others, and finally to God.

We have been lost in the searching, the fear of not having enough, of not being good enough, the pain of distancing within our own self, and within our relationships near and far, personal and nationally, close up and internationally. This side of Eden there is no rest. We are forever on the move, looking for home.

Here in the desert wilderness a voice sounds. Jahweh is coming; God is near; get ready to meet this One who comes to bring us home.